Affiliate Marketing For Dummies

Chapter 22

The Ten Best Marketing Strategies for Affiliates

IN THIS CHAPTER

Checking out website, email, and social media marketing strategies

Trying content marketing and e-book publishing for your affiliate business

Expanding into joint ventures, media interviews, and smartphone apps

Success for the affiliate marketer boils down to lead generation and finding as many targeted eyeballs as possible for the offer you want them to see. In this chapter we want to emphasize the top ten methods to get those eyeballs onto the affiliate link you’re offering. There are literally hundreds of ways to market your affiliate offer, but in this chapter we highlight ten ways that are generally easy to do and essentially cost-free strategies. More importantly, they have been used profitably by successful affiliates. Drum roll, please …

Guest Blogging

The advice you frequently get from marketing folks about your affiliate business is to do blogging to some extent. But for beginners that usually means starting from scratch and with no audience. Is there a way to short-circuit this process?

Don’t get us wrong — blogging is good, especially for beginners. But we think that a major consideration ...